Mentors' Specific Skills

Ben Brockman (IDInsight)
-In general, the biggest area I can help on is feasibility of deployment of different technologies. I have spent the last 2 years or so working in low resource settings and have seen a lot of things crash and burn on the implementation side of things.
-Specific sectors worked in: WASH (Water and Sanitation), Health (HIV/AIDs, Commodity Supply Chains, Data Systems), Vocational Training
-Geographies worked in: West Africa (Ghana), Southern Africa (Zambia), Southeast Asia (Cambodia), South Asia (India)
-Technical Experience: Mobile data collection (Open Data Kit - Collect, Aggregate)

Chris Alfano (Jarvus)
-As an organizer in Philly's civic hacking community and regular hackathon mentor/participant I'm aware of much of the work done on past projects, what efforts are underway within organizations in the city, and data available or near-available from the City and various organizations. I'd like to encourage building apps that make new uses of civic data and help teams build on top of, rather than repeat, past projects.
-Areas of technical expertise: Civic data, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, sysops

Michael Collis (Google)
-Areas of technical expertise: Java, Python, C, C++, Android, Google APIs, backend and data design

Ethan Soergel (Dimagi)
-Areas of technical expertise: Python, Django, Elasticsearch, Web applications

Nick Pellegrino (Dimagi)
-Areas of technical expertise: Python, Django, Java, C, C++
-Familiar but no expert: C#, Objective-C

Patrick Choquette (Peace Corps)
-2.5 years of experience working in West Africa and 2.5 years doing the same in the Caribbean. My background is in education but my time in Peace Corps has been focused on how to implement tech projects on a wide scale.
-Technical Experience: Using GitHub

Ryan Villanueva (IBM)
-Technical Experience: Analytics and Data-driven development